Highsplint Fire
The Highsplint Fire burned 673 acres in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 2005. It was discovered on November 25, 2005.
- Size
- 673 acres
- Discovered
- November 25, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,001 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.898, -83.124.
The record
- Reported final size
- 673 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,001 acres
- Discovered
- November 25, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Harlan County
- Reporting unit
- Kentucky Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KY3690808312320051125
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-KY00810505-095-02321
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Kentucky in 20056
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maces Cr. 1 Fire | 3,000 | Nov 4, 2005 | |
| Gilberts Creek Fire | 2,537 | Nov 13, 2005 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,200 | Nov 12, 2005 | |
| Town Mtn Fire | 1,500 | Nov 28, 2005 | Human |
| Morris Fork Fire | 1,500 | Nov 28, 2005 | Human |
| Dry Fork Fire | 1,154 | Nov 13, 2005 |
Nearby
Sources
Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.